Köprülü Mehmed Pasha was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire of Albanian origin and founding patriarch of the Köprülü political dynasty. He helped rebuild the power of the empire by rooting out corrupt
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Battle of the Dardanelles on 19 July 1657.
Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman nobleman, military figure and grand vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central and Eastern Europe.
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…Mustafa Pasha (father of Köprülüzade Damat Numan Pasha and Köprülüzade Abdüllah Pasha) and at least two daughters, who married Abaza Siyavush Pasha and Kara Mustafa Pasha. Köprülü era…
Imaginative portrait of Kara Mustafa Pasha, 1670-1724, Netherlands
Imaginative portrait of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha
Kara Mustafa Pasha's strangulation by a silk cord on 25 December 1683.